In 2022’s inaugural Strong Towns Podcast episode, Chuck interviews Tim Soerens, author and co-founder of the Parish Collective.
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Michel Durand-Wood takes us on a hilarious walk through the stages of grief as he puts a financial spike in the heart of his beloved city’s unsustainable 2050 Master Plan.
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This year, I want to focus on how our small, everyday actions add up to something meaningful for the places we live in.
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We hope you have a wonderful final few weeks of the year, and look forward to seeing you again in 2022!
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Strong Towns Senior Editor Daniel Herriges shares his favorite content from this past year.
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An annual tradition, here is Chuck Marohn’s list of his favorite books he read in 2021.
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Strong Towns Copy Editor/Designer Shina Shayesteh shares her favorite content from this past year.
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Kirk Seyfert is helping get bikes to people who need them in Salem, OR.
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The author of Happy City helped build a home that addressed some of the greatest challenges of our times. But his home is illegal almost everywhere in his city—and in your city, too.
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COVID has enabled us to get some “disaster relief” for the housing crisis. But what about when the pandemic is over?
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Strong Towns Community Builder John Pattison shares his favorite content from this past year.
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People are talking about Confessions of a Recovering Engineer. Here's what they're saying.
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The Christmas Cookie Inflation Index has risen 10.6% in the last year. This is compared to the official inflation rate of 6.8%.
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It’s hard to meaningfully engage with the poor when everything about our cities is designed to steer us away from them.
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Strong Towns Program Director Rachel Quednau shares her favorite content from this past year.
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Dozens of people have been killed by vehicles on State Street in Springfield, Massachusetts over the last seven years. The public is clamoring for change, but city staff aren’t getting the message. Here’s what’s being lost in translation.
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Across the U.S. and Canada, the Strong Towns movement is growing. We’ve added two new staff people to help.
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Any attempt to design cities that are for people and not cars is all for naught if there are no means to finance it.
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This new Strong Towns e-book explores what it would take to revive small-scale development as a force significant enough to shape and grow our cities.
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This house came with a unique instruction: “Change the mailbox message every week, or people will get upset.”
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